Qinetiq, the company spun out of the Ministry of Defence research department, is on the move after reports of a deal with Pakistan.

Its shares are up 7.7p or 3.4% to 235.2p following talk that the company has sold $7.8m worth of Talon robots, unmanned ground vehicles used to track bombs and other explosives, to the country. The order was said to comprise 100 of the military robots.